Here Reindorf described the events leading to the defeat and death of MacCarthy. Unlike Ellis, his account differed substantially -- both in detail and emphasis -- from earlier (mostly British) ones. The panegyric verse with which he closed the chapter was, however, quite typical of the Fante-Wesleyan response to this Governor. With the exception of a few details (and, of course, the vernacular) this chapter is fairly and fully reproduced, including even the panegyric.
In a detailed chapter covering the period from July, 1824 to July, 1826, Reindorf described the siege of Cape Coast and the circumstances inducing the Asante to retire to Kumase. He then traced the recovery and reorganization of the Asante army under Osei Yaw Akoto and the efforts of Europeans and Accra businessmen to revive the southern alliance. In his own work Cruickshank was concerned only with the siege and withdrawal and on these parts Reindorf relied for some events of the siege. But, rather characteristically, he emphasized the Gã role in certain of these (197/190).
It has been argued that one of the more salient features of Reindorf's work is its palpable orientation toward the Gãs. The extent to which this is valid criticism will be discussed below but, rather ironically, the evidence in this chapter which might support this thesis has been largely omitted from History II. For example, in the second sentence of the chapter Reindorf had labeled the Gas as “bull-dogs of the European governments” for fighting in no fewer than five engagements between March of 1823 and June of 1824, but this was omitted in History II (196/[189]).